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Not Born Digital

Daniel Morris
Not Born Digital Book PDF

Author : Daniel Morris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501316715

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Not Born Digital addresses from multiple perspectives – ethical, historical, psychological, conceptual, aesthetic – the vexing problems and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics, the ancient form of transmission and preservation of the human voice, in an environment in which e-poetry and digitalized poetics pose a crisis (understood as opportunity and threat) to traditional page poetry. The premise of Not Born Digital is that the innovative contemporary poets studied in this book engage obscure and discarded, but nonetheless historically resonant materials to unsettle what Charles Bernstein, a leading innovative contemporary U.S. poet and critic of “official verse culture,” refers to as “frame lock” and “tone jam.” While other scholars have begun to analyze poetry that appears in new media contexts, Not Born Digital concerns the ambivalent ways page poets (rather than electronica based poets) have grappled with “screen memory” (that is, electronic and new media sources) through the re-purposing of “found” materials.

Bibliodeath

Andrei Codrescu
Bibliodeath Book PDF

Author : Andrei Codrescu
Publisher : Antibookclub
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0983868344

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Bibliodeath by Andrei Codrescu Pdf

Award-winning author Andrei CodrescuOCOs ""Bibliodeath: My Archives (With Life in Footnotes)"" surveys the evolutionary relationship between language and technology by examining his own career as a prolific American writer for more than four decades. Born in Transylvania, Romania, CodrescuOCOs journey spans from his earliest days as a scattered poet in the 1960s to his founding of the journal"" Exquisite Corpse"" in 1983 to his ongoing commentary today on National Public RadioOCOs All Things Considered. Amid the release of some of his most celebrated books, the authorOCOs story is an insightful address of the survival of the literate world and the transformation of print, told through suspenseful reflection and alluring, signature footnotes."

The Poetry Lesson

Andrei Codrescu
The Poetry Lesson Book PDF

Author : Andrei Codrescu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691178059

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"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall), you blindfold them and lead them by the hand into a labyrinth made from bones. Then you tell them their assignment: 'Find the Grail. You have a New York minute to get it.'"--The Poetry Lesson The Poetry Lesson is a hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a "typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik"--one with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an endless store of entertaining literary anecdotes, reliable or otherwise. Neither a novel nor a memoir but mimicking aspects of each, The Poetry Lesson is pure Andrei Codrescu: irreverent, unconventional, brilliant, and always funny. Codrescu takes readers into the strange classroom and even stranger mind of a poet and English professor on the eve of retirement as he begins to teach his final semester of Intro to Poetry Writing. As he introduces his students to THE TOOLS OF POETRY (a list that includes a goatskin dream notebook, hypnosis, and cable TV) and THE TEN MUSES OF POETRY (mishearing, misunderstanding, mistranslating . . . ), and assigns each of them a tutelary "Ghost-Companion" poet, the teacher recalls wild tales from his coming of age as a poet in the 1960s and 1970s, even as he speculates about the lives and poetic and sexual potential of his twenty-first-century students. From arguing that Allen Ginsberg wasn't actually gay to telling about the time William Burroughs's funeral procession stopped at McDonald's, The Poetry Lesson is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of an inimitable poet, teacher, and storyteller.

The Blood Countess

Andrei Codrescu
The Blood Countess Book PDF

Author : Andrei Codrescu
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504015264

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The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu Pdf

A “brilliant” novel of Elizabeth Bathory, the notorious sixteenth-century Hungarian aristocrat who bathed in the blood of virgins (St. Petersburg Times). Turmoil reigns in post-Soviet Hungary when journalist Drake Bathory-Kereshtur returns from America to grapple with his family history. He’s haunted by the legacy of his ancestor, the notorious sixteenth-century Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who is said to have murdered more than 650 young virgins and bathed in their blood to preserve her youth. Interweaving past and present, The Blood Countess tells the stories of Elizabeth’s debauched and murderous reign and Drake’s fascination with the eternal clashes of faith and power, violence and beauty. Codrescu traces the captivating origins of the countess’s obsessions in tandem with the emerging political fervor of the reporter, building the narratives into an unforgettable, bloody crescendo. Taut and intense, The Blood Countess is a riveting novel that deftly straddles the genres of historical fiction, thriller, horror, and family drama.

An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and what Happened Afterwards)

Andrei Codrescu
An Involuntary Genius in America s Shoes and what Happened Afterwards Book PDF

Author : Andrei Codrescu
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574231596

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An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and what Happened Afterwards) by Andrei Codrescu Pdf

This is the candid account of author, essayist and broadcaster Andrei Codrescu's life. From a bitter-sweet childhood in a Transylvanian castle to the horrors of the Ceausescu years, the author eventually re-invents himself in a new country.

The Disappearance of the Outside

Andrei Codrescu
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Author : Andrei Codrescu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015051311499

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The Disappearance of the Outside by Andrei Codrescu Pdf

This crucial work calls for an imaginative reach beyond a benign reality founded in technology and commercialism, by striving for a better, evolutionary existence through art."--BOOK JACKET.

Casanova in Bohemia

Andrei Codrescu
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Author : Andrei Codrescu
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504015271

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Casanova in Bohemia by Andrei Codrescu Pdf

An erotic, comedic, and compulsively readable historical novel depicting the beguiling Giacomo Casanova as he looks back on a life of love and ribald adventure In Count Waldstein’s far-flung Bohemian castle, an aging Casanova spends his days as a librarian cataloging the count’s extensive collection of books. Or at least that’s what he’s supposed to be doing. Ever the storyteller, Casanova instead dedicates himself to his own writing, for which the young servant Laura Brock serves as an endlessly fascinated audience. He recounts to her his greatest escapades—from romances in a Venetian convent to the seduction of an entire harem to the triumphant amassing (and subsequent loss) of a fortune in Paris. Enlivened by the French Revolution and the liberating ideas of the Enlightenment, Casanova’s latest exploits prove he still possesses an intellectual vigor and insatiable curiosity. Even old age can’t keep this legendary libertine—who corresponded with Voltaire, discussed flight with Benjamin Franklin, and whose life and writings inspired artists as diverse as Mozart, Flaubert, Stendhal, and Hesse—from causing trouble. Rich with eighteenth-century European social, political, and religious history, Casanova in Bohemia is an energetic and erotic portrait of Western literature’s most beloved lothario, whose hedonism was matched by his creativity and wit.

Ancient Acid Flashes Back

Adrian C. Louis
Ancient Acid Flashes Back Book PDF

Author : Adrian C. Louis
Publisher : Western Literature
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015049545802

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Ancient Acid Flashes Back by Adrian C. Louis Pdf

A true story told through poetry

No Time Like Now

Andrei Codrescu
No Time Like Now Book PDF

Author : Andrei Codrescu
Publisher : Pitt Poetry
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0822965828

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No Time Like Now by Andrei Codrescu Pdf

In Codrescu's own words: "I wrote my first book of poems, License to Carry a Gun (Big Table, 1970), when I first lived in New York City, 1967-1970. Those were troubled times and I was 21 years-old. Decades later the city has changed and the times are still troubled. These poems, 2016-2018, try to find out just how changed my dear city and how troubled my days."

New Orleans, Mon Amour

Andrei Codrescu
New Orleans Mon Amour Book PDF

Author : Andrei Codrescu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015063662509

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New Orleans, Mon Amour by Andrei Codrescu Pdf

For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where cemeteries are the most popular picnic spots, the ghosts of poets, prostitutes, and pirates are palpable, and in the French Quarter, no one ever sleeps. Codrescu's essays have been called "satirical gems," "subversive," "sardonic and stunning," "funny," "gonzo," "wittily poignant," and "perverse"—here is a writer who perfectly mirrors the wild, voluptuous, bohemian character of New Orleans itself. This retrospective follows him from newcomer to near native: first seduced by the lush banana trees in his backyard and the sensual aroma of coffee at the café down the block, Codrescu soon becomes a Window Gang regular at the infamous bar Molly's on Decatur, does a stint as King of Krewe de Vieux Carré at Mardi Gras, befriends artists, musicians, and eccentrics, and exposes the city’s underbelly of corruption, warning presciently about the lack of planning for floods in a city high on its own insouciance. Alas, as we all now know, Paradise is lost. New Orleans, Mon Amour is an epic love song, a clear-eyed elegy, a cultural celebration, and a thank-you note to New Orleans in its Golden Age.

Walker Evans, Cuba

Walker Evans,Andrei Codrescu
Walker Evans Cuba Book PDF

Author : Walker Evans,Andrei Codrescu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173008053800

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Walker Evans, Cuba by Walker Evans,Andrei Codrescu Pdf

"As novelist and poet Andrei Codrescu points out in the essay that accompanies this selection of photographs from the Getty Museum's collection, Evans's photographs are the work of an artist whose temperament was distinctly at odds with Beals's impassioned rhetoric. Evans's photographs of Cuba were made by a young, still maturing artist who - as Codrescu argues - was just beginning to combine his early, formalist aesthetic with the social concerns that would figure prominently in his later work."--Jacket.

Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers' Libraries

Richard W. Oram
Collecting Curating and Researching Writers Libraries Book PDF

Author : Richard W. Oram
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442234987

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Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers' Libraries by Richard W. Oram Pdf

Academic collection practices in recent years have extended to the private libraries of notable individual authors. As a consequence, book historians have become more interested in the study of provenance of the contents of these libraries, while literary scholars have devoted more attention to authorial annotations. At the same time, the Internet has encouraged both scholarly and hobbyist reconstructions of private libraries (see, for example, the “Legacy Libraries” on Librarything.com). Although there are many bibliographies and reconstructions of the libraries of authors, this is the first general consideration of these libraries and serves as an introduction to best practices for academic libraries in their acquisition, cataloging and issues of access. This collection begins with principal editor Richard Oram’s historical overview of writers’ libraries and institutional collecting, focusing primarily on English-language authors. The co-editor, Joseph Nicholson, has provided a definitive review of best cataloging and arrangement practices that facilitate scholarly access. The bookseller Kevin Mac Donnell discusses the marketing of these collections and obstacles to placing intact author libraries in institutions. Also included are case studies by Amanda Golden and David Faulds relating to the personal libraries of the poets Anne Sexton and Ted Hughes, indicating how these collections have the potential to enhance archival research. Fiction writers Iain Sinclair, Russell Banks, Jim Crace, poet Ted Kooser, and biographer Ron Powers describe their (sometimes passionate) relationship with books and their own personal libraries. The concluding chapter, a location guide to over 500 individual libraries, will be invaluable to scholars and librarians who want to know where writers’ libraries are currently located, what happened to them (if they are known to have been sold or dispersed), and what has been written about them.

Kenneth Goldsmith's Recent Works on Paper

Daniel Morris
Kenneth Goldsmith s Recent Works on Paper Book PDF

Author : Daniel Morris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683932376

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Kenneth Goldsmith's Recent Works on Paper by Daniel Morris Pdf

Kenneth Goldsmith's Recent Works on Paper is the first critical book devoted to Kenneth Goldsmith, the acclaimed conceptual poet, pedagogue, and provocateur. The book’s focus is on Capital, Wasting Time on the Internet, Against Translation, and Theory, all published within a year of Goldsmith's controversial reading of a poem based on the Michael Brown autopsy report at Brown University in March 2015. These four books address issues of historiography, translation, pedagogy, authorship, and celebrity culture. Each book serves a retrospective function for an author who is, mid-career, taking stock of his considerable impact on U.S. (and world) poetics at the very moment when critics are challenging the ethics of his aesthetic judgment in the wake of the controversy surrounding “The Body of Michael Brown.” The author focuses on how Goldsmith stages (and, in some cases, transforms) his metamorphic identity as a post-humanist information manager. His performance in these four books complicates the current image of him among many critics and fellow poets as one of Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” who displayed extremely poor judgment while contributing to a culture of racial insensitivity by performing “The Body of Michael Brown.”

The Best American Poetry 2013

Denise Duhamel,David Lehman
The Best American Poetry 2013 Book PDF

Author : Denise Duhamel,David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781476708140

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The Best American Poetry 2013 by Denise Duhamel,David Lehman Pdf

Beloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel selects the poems for the 2013 edition of The Best American Poetry,“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Over the last twenty-five years, the Best American Poetry series has become an annual rite of autumn, eagerly awaited and hotly debated: “an essential purchase” (The Washington Post). This year, guest editor Denise Duhamel brings her wit and enthusiasm and her commitment to poetry in all its wide variety to bear on her choices for The Best American Poetry 2013. These acts of imagination—from known stars and exciting newcomers—testify to the vitality of an art form that continues to endure and flourish, defying dour predictions of its demise, in the digital age. This edition of the most important poetry anthology in the United States opens with David Lehman’s incisive “state of the art” essay and Denise Duhamel’s engagingly candid discussion of the seventy-five poems that made her final cut. Reflecting the vibrant state of our country’s contemporary poetry scene, The Best American Poetry 2013 includes such eminences as John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, James Tate, and Richard Wilbur, as well as the fast-rising hot poets Sherman Alexie, Nin Andrews, Anna Maria Hong, Timothy Donnelly, Mary Ruefle, and Major Jackson.

Guns in the Hands of Artists

Jonathan Ferrara
Guns in the Hands of Artists Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Ferrara
Publisher : Inkshares
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781941758724

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Guns in the Hands of Artists by Jonathan Ferrara Pdf

In the 1990s, the New Orleans murder rate exploded. In 1996, 350 people were killed—the highest number in the city’s history, and the highest rate in the nation. In response to this crisis, gallery owner and artist Jonathan Ferrara and artist Brian Borrello, launched a powerful project: Guns in the Hands of Artists. Over sixty artists, including painters, glass artists, sculptors, photographers, and poets, used decommissioned guns taken off the city streets via a gun buyback program to express a thought, make a statement, open a discussion, and to stimulate thinking about guns and gun violence in America. As gun violence continues to devastate the nation on a daily basis, Guns in the Hands of Artists reemerged in 2012 as a community-based social activist art project that has since traveled to six cities across the US. Using art as a mirror for life and interweaving the works of thirty diverse artists with the voices of seventeen national thought leaders, this book is an important outgrowth of the exhibition and an extension of its efforts to employ art as a vehicle for dialogue, as a call to action, and—ultimately—as an agent of change. Essays by: Walter Isaacson, Senator Tim Kaine, Lupe Fiasco, Richard Ford, Joe Nocera, Trymaine Lee, Lolis Eric Elie, John M. Barry, Dan Cameron, Lucia McBath, Harry Shearer, Jonathan Ferrara, Brian Borrello, Maria Cuomo Cole, Michael Waldman, E. Ethelbert Miller, Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Captain Mark Kelly.